The Phantom Stranger #25

This July 1973 issue of The Phantom Stranger opens with a genuinely unsettling cover by Luis Dominguez — a terrified dark-haired woman, pinned to the ground and clutching a small object, comes face-to-fanged-face with a massive, vividly rendered serpent poised to strike. The image sets a perfect tone for the Stranger's world of supernatural dread, and the story within — "Dance of the Serpent" — promises the kind of occult tension Len Wein and Jim Aparo deliver so well. As a bonus, the Spawn of Frankenstein also appears inside, making this a satisfying double dose of DC's early-'70s horror offerings.